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Tutela     Who cares what time of day it is, there's a nice huge black tower near... some place around the System Hub. Oddly enough it doesn't seem to connect to anything but there's a large platform for anyone to land on or somehow get to. A featureless door, save for a single brass handle is shown with placards to the left and right, the wording states it's Floor 53. In front of said door is Tutela, a girl roughly about fifteen-ish, wearing fluffy pajamas and house shoes. "Hehe, I'm here..." comes the sleepy-like voice from the girl.

    She heard a couple voices on the radio program she picked up and decided to wait, after all, she's just a normal girl, right?
Lexicon     Normally, Lexicon treats the System Tower appearing elsewhere as someone else's problem. Especially if it's another drive entirely. There's two small facts that makes her break her normal routine for this particular situation: It's appeared in the System Hub, a rare occurrence that threatens the System's stability; and the person who came across it is as far as she knows an ordinary person who probably doesn't stand a chance against whatever's on the other side of those doors.

    What soars through the System Hub searching for impossibly tall towers is Silver Soul, on her wings of light. Shading crimson eyes with one hand, she skims the 'horizon' until she finds what she's looking for.

    A few moments later, the DCC descends into a solid landing, causing a notable vibration on impact but at least not cracking the ground or anything melodramatic like that. As she lifts up, she floats back up to her usual few-inches clearance, sizing Tutela up with eyes marked by power sigils.

    After a moment, she glances towards the Tower itself, "I guess it had to turn up somewhere after Emerald Soul booted it out of Arcade, but it's pretty unusual for the Tower to appear here." Glancing back to Tutela, she leans forward, "It's good you waited, this place can get pretty nasty."
Silica     Silica is following along after Silver Soul. As the only other person in the System the little Cait Sith really knows in anything close to the 'well' category, so she decided to meet up with the DCC first, before heading out to the Tower location.

    While Silver Soul's landing is solid and earth shaking, Silica's is decidedly light, barely even making a sound as she alights and dismisses her wings, walking after the levitating DCC and offering a wave to the sleepy looking girl at the doors.
Tutela     Tutela gives a bit of a smile, still a sleepy look upon her face as she turns around to face the DCC and the Cait Sith that's now joined her on this. "Aaah? Iwaited for you?" she cheerfully questions. "It's near my home... I wanted to look at it too. Don't worry, I can protect myself." she smiled, a pair of feather-like blades appearing from code in her hands, a black and white one... She holds both in one hand before turning back to the door and opening it. "I'm Tutela."

    As if that explained a lot... "Why... did it show near my home? Does it always do that? Show near Arcade... Britannica... and the other drives?" would a random girl with a random comms program even /know/ about those drives? The question can't get asked as soon the girl just walks through the door, "Cautio should prepare..." she whispered to no one in particular.

    Inside the floor it's quite open... sunny looking... almost like a ... THEME PARK ... There's rollercoasters in the background, a fountain dead center and a couple pools around said fountain. And a /lot/, hundreds if not a thousand viruses are inside. Mostly Malvaders and Poochoozes.... but beyond that.. there's a metric ton of them there. "Oh boy.."

    "Play time."
Cirra Constantine     The LAw is always here. And Cirra has always been here, walking up to the tower, furrowing her brow at it as she often does, and stepping inside to find the theme park. Roller coasters, rides, and...viruses.

    "IS this where they go to relax?" she wonders outloud as she prepares herself by drawing out her crystaline long sowrd.
Lexicon     "Huh, it's not normal to live in the Hub, but if that's the lifestyle you chose," Lexicon admits with a shrug, "Not gonna question it." Her eyes wander up the face of the Tower, "This thing appears randomly in the Drives, sucking up system resources until a floor is cleared. When it's cleared, the whole Tower disappears and moves somewhere else, to another Drive usually." Eyes closing, she shrugs, "It's random, so this is just bad luck on your part. We'll get this outta the way for you, Tutela."

    Swords appear in the girl's hand, though, and Lexicon's crimson eyes fixate on her again in a more appraising way. So this sleepy program is more than just a regular denizen, by the look of things. Her head tilts. A defense program, maybe?

    "Hey--!" Tutela enters, and Lexicon kicks off to pursue, sailing into the Tower's interior and promptly ascending a few meters, "Crap..!" Reaching out, swirling digital light materializes into a staff which unfurls further to deploy the distinctive white blade of her axe, "There's a lot of them in here..! Do we have to exterminate them all to clear the floor?"

    It's certainly different from the more puzzle-like floors that tend to appear in Britannica. Even the battles were puzzle-like, in hindsight. This is just... a survival mode.
Silica     "Hey, wait a m---..." Silica begins, but then the girl, even with the manifested blades, walks right into the tower. "... too late." she sighs, draws her Dagger, then glances at her shoulder-mounted dragonling. "Get ready, Pina." she says, then pets the little blue-white feather dragon on the head.

    The Dragon Tamer of Aincrad then follows Tutela into the Tower, eyes going wide with the sheer number of Viruses in the area... "I don't have enough Mana for this." she murmurs to herself, before quickly doublechecking her Mana Potion stock.
Tutela     Of course it's not normal to live in the Hub. After all it's the HUB... Fortunately, the little program doesn't live there but they don't need to know that just yet. She hears Silver Soul's words and she smiles, "So you destroy viruses?" she questions, "I like you." dangerous three words. "If.. you need healing.. I have healing items you can use~" she grins towards Silica, "You're a cute catgirl, I like you." those dangerous three words again. And then Cirra.

    She looks at Cirra curiously... "No. I don't think so. Viruses need to go to a certain... SPECIAL place..." that sleepy smile goes wide as she turns back around to look at the viruses and... sleepily walks towards them. The Malvaders eye the transgressor entering their space and turn around... only to dogpile the girl... who doesn't seem to say or move or.. well do anything. So much for those swords right?

    There's a brief glow from under the Malvader-pile... and then those blades exiting the pile... and slicing up and around. "Hehe, you're FUN!" she cheerfully states as she starts moving faster towards another pack. "Keep up... Tutela's bored..."
Lexicon     What a weird question. "I'm a Drive Core Controller," Lexicon states, swinging her axe aside one-handed, "Of course I do. It's part of my job as DCC of Britannica." Something about this girl is a little offputting, though. Like a fox in the henhouse, almost. She can't quite put her finger on why, though.

    When the girl is dogpiled by viruses, Lexicon's reaction is immediate, bunching up and creating a platform out of digital light to plant her feet on, though Tutela breaks loose right as Lexicon springs off the platform. She redirects herself, sailing over the dashing fighter instead, "Keepin' up isn't gonna be a problem, just don't get surrounded again!"

    Descending in front of Tutela, Lexicon hurls herself into a spin, sweeping her axe in crescent slashes for several long meters to clear the way. This doubles as her landing, as she skids to a halt while spinning and uses the last of her momentum to slam the axe down, sending out a burst of ice on impact.

    "TANZERIN TROMBE!"

    Wrenching her weapon free, the DCC casts a glance over her shoulder, "Just be careful and don't get isolated!"
Cirra Constantine     "It was a rhetorical question." Cirra says flatly. She stares at Tutela through her visor helemet as she takes off after the viruses, gets dog pilled and burst her way out. "Well I suppose we don't have to worry about her too much."

    The Judge surges forward, slicing her sword through Malvaders. There doesn't SEEM to be anything about this level that needs solving, other then the deletion of these viruses. So she weaves her way through crowd of viruses, slicing through digital pests and tossing them back towards the rides whenever possible.
Silica     Silica grits her teeth, and while the Viruses are largely distracted, she begins to chant. Norse words appear and flow around her as she begins to channel Mana into the spell. As she finishes the final word, a 'bubble' appears around herself and her allies. It's a mild defense buff, should help against the first few attacks.

    As Tutela starts off, the Beast Tamer chants up another spell to follow the first, this one manifesting a circle of yellow light at her outstretched palms. As she finishes the spell, a stream of about twenty thin 'needles' of yellow magic lash out, aiming to skewer the Viruses. And then she's being dogpiled herself, Malvaders and Poochooze attempting to overwhelm the Cait Sith.

    They fail, as Pina bites into one, and Silica herself uses a Sword Skill to punch a hole in the surround, before dashing out at high speed. "They have more Viruses than we have Mana charges!"
Tutela     A battle royale between two programs, a judge and a catgirl and a whole lot of viruses. The ones that are defeated seem to just float there for a moment before dissapearing. That Tanzerin Trombe sweeps out a good chunk of them while the judge's surge cleaves through the dangerous digital denizens, some get sent flying and crash into the rides before dissapearing. Tutela smiles at this all, looking around between them. "Maybe I could have stayed home and played video games."

    Now's not the time though as she continues her own slicing and dicing.... only to get dogpiled again... by a bunch of dog eared oozes.. "Bother." she mutters, "Perhaps it's..." she busts out of this and looks towards Lexicon before poking at her radio... "Cautio... can I transform now...?" comes from the girl. Though she frowns slightly as something is responded. Oh well. She'll do this later...

    Something at the far edge of the park starts to gather, those dissapearing viruses reappear behind there... and start piling on and on with each defeat. What could that mean?
Lexicon     Surrounded by shattering ice from the termination of her attack, Lexicon rears up and glances over her shoulder, skimming the virus crowd for wherever Tutela had run off to. When she at last spots the girl some distance off, she relaxes, then squints at the piling viruses Cirra drew attention to. "The hell..?"

    This isn't a good time to stare thoughtfully into the distance, though, as a Malvader reminds the DCC by jumping onto her. There's a spray of red-tinged pixels and a shout of indignant surprise more than pain, and she gives it a good smash with her gauntlet-clad hand, "Oh for fuck's sake--!" Tearing the little beast off, she casts it away, then whirls on the mob it originated from and heaves her axe overhead, "--DIE YOU LITTLE SHITS!" The axe is brought down, slamming into the tower floor with a sound like shattering glass. Ice shoots out from the impact, then erupts into spikes in an irregular cone-like pattern in front of her, "LATENT KATASTROPHE!"
Silica     Silica just keeps moving. She can't afford to get dogpiled, especially because she doesn't have the durability of the others, nor can she effectively heal while dodging. The one bad thing about Magic in ALO is it requires being stationary to cast, so with all these Viruses marauding around, she just can't catch a break!

    Instead of playing support this time around, The Beast Tamer Cait Sith is flexing the other part of her build, using the Agility stat she's built up to play Keep Away, letting the Viruses over extend themselves, before punishing them with a quick slash from her dagger.
Cirra Constantine     A Poochooze tackles Cirra like a big adorable squishy puppy that is far too excited to see her. The pair of them fall into a rollercoaster car, and a Malvader cackles like a demented little scientist as it pulls the lever to start up the ride, sending Cirra and the Poochooze up the tracks.

    The Judge struggles with the virus that is trying to lick her face affectionatly (with acid) holding it up by the neck as she tries to worm her way out of the car to no avail. Only to feel the *clackthump* of the rollercoaster snagging on the winch to pull it up the first slope.

    Cirra manages to get her swordd through the Poochooze and sits up as the cart reaches the top of the hill. "What..." She spies the viruses piling on top of each other at the edge of the theme park "Are they doing?" she asks as the rollercoaster turns a corner.

    A Malvader whistles sharply at Cirra from further back, getting her attention as it pulls down the ride's restraints and locks itself in place, pointing at the cushioned bar, then past Cirra.

    Where the ride immediatly drops down a hill. The judge grabs hold for dear life as the train of open carts plumets down the track.
Tutela     Tutela can't help but to continue slicing and dicing and shocking things with various bolts... at least, until there's another pile of Viruses in need of deletion! But... she looks towards Silica and smiles. "I like you... " she comments eerily as she sends a burst of lightning magic towards the Cait Sith... "Divine Dodge!" comes the hidden DCC's shout as Silica would find herself a lot harder to hit all of a sudden. Buff spells go. Though, the virus population seems to be thinning out, the pile of defeated viruses only grows... and grows... until...

    There's a flash of light from the pile, deleting the rest of the viruses and adding it to its own form... and soon... there's a very manly "OOOH YEAH!" coming from the glowing pile... as a very large, at least ten feet tall, POOCHOOZE with MUSCULAR ARMS AND LEGS arises from the pile. "Huwah!" it shouts, "Wanna get past me?! You can't delete FLEXING!" it flexes and shouts once more...

    "...Ugly. Very... very ugly." Tutela mutters, shaking her head.. "Cautio..." <Don't you do it! not there, there's people around!> "Cauuutiiioooo!" <YOu aren't... going to listen to me, are you?> "Nope~" <*sigh* I'll prepare the lockup... Come home safe then.> after that bit of conversation with her sister... the girl herself starts glowing... and soon...

    A woman, tall, curvy and wielding a whip sword appears in her place... She flicks some hair out of her eyes and gets this wicked smile upon her face, "Such an ugly beast dare show its face in front of me? Tsk tsk tsk, whatever shall we do to you..." comes an alluring voice, taunting... "You... you... and YOU DCC..." she points to Silica, Cirra and Silver Soul... "Let's beat the corruption out of my new playtoy, shall we?"
Lexicon     Silver Soul wrenches her axe from the tower floor, casting a glance back at the heap when it erupts into a muscular monster with her teeth bared, "So it's a nastier one after all..." Hostility fades from her face when Tutela straight up transforms in the same digital light the Silver DCC uses, and she recoils almost defensively, calling attention to it, "Digital Divinity..!?"

    Where did this DCC even come from? There are only four Drives! For certain the System would make a big deal over a new Drive coming online, just like the past three times it's happened under her watch. So where?

    Something's suspicious, here. But the behavior of this new Drive Core Controller being such a departure from the soft-voiced girl that stood there a moment ago gives Lexicon pause. These are questions to be asked later. This girl hates viruses, so she probably isn't one herself pulling some nasty trick. She kicks off in a wing-assisted leap, descending near the freshly transformed girl.

    "I expect answers after this," she snaps, keeping her eyes on the bizarre, fused virus before her. Straightening, she points her axe, "As for you..! Flex all you want, sicko, I'll still /CRUSH/ you!"

    As the sturdiest one here, aside from possibly Cirra (who is occupied on the Great System Coaster, anyway), it's Lexicon's job to keep the monster's attention off the softer and squishier fighters present. And snapping taunts at it is just the beginning, as she hurls herself forward, axe in hand, "Show me what you've /GOT/!"
Silica     "... wait what?" comes the deadpan tone from Silica, as she watches the GIANT POOCHOOZE with a chou aniki body wise fwom its gwabe... uh, the pile of Viruses. She frowns, as the rest of the ones chasing her, thankfully kept entirely useless, no small part being her own speed, boosted by Tutela's buff spell (thank you, please don't like me too much...), vanish as the 'Boss' appears.

    So, now she's free to chill out and take stock, she watches the monster with sharp eyes, watching for its pattern, looking for any weaknesses it expresses as Silver Soul goes in for the first strike... she'll worry about Tutela's transformation later.
Cirra Constantine     The Rollercoaster goes up another inlcine just as the ...Super Virus? appears. Cirra hangs on by the back of one car by one hand. "Tch." And a mysterious 'divine' to boot. This day is just getting more complicated.

    As the coaster flatens out and Cirra pulls herself back up right in an effort to eliminate the troublesome Malvader in the rear car, she sees more Poochooze lined up on the sides of the trakc, leaping at her as soon as she's close enough.

    Seeing no alternative, the Judge takes a firm stance, sword held up in both hands. Slicing through each Virus as it leaps at her. She hops back with every other virus destroyed until they finally run out...

    In time for another dip.

    Cirra spread her feet across two carts and ducks down. A flash of energy striking the coaster just next to her as Malvaders line up, firing bursts of energy at her like she was the duck in a carnival game.

    Changing her sword into rifle mode by splitting the blade along it's length. Cirra fires back as she rides the rollercoaster, shifting her weight from side to side as it goes through a worming set of tracks, knocking each Malvader off ever as the ride goes through a corckscrew while the Malvader seated in the back hops angrily in his seat, pointing the other virsues at the obvious human and how could they POSSIBLY MISS HER?!
Tutela     The SUPER VIRUS just flexes and, with the new DCC's entry, Iron Soul looks towards Silver Soul, Cirra and Silica. "Of course, DCC..." she smirks, flying off after the DCC to work on beating up Chou Aniki POOCHOOZE... "Tell me, how shall we deal with this? Perhaps... just cutting it off from everything? Slicing it up into itty bitty peices and then... letting me jail it?" she grins and curls her fingers around the back part of the whip blade...

    With the axe being swung at the Giant Poochoze Ver Cho Aniki, it lands... and reverberates. It's almost as hard as steel, but with it removed, there's the red mark of damage there, so it DOES hurt. It flexes once more and this flex sends out a fireball shockwave... somehow. It's a virus, don't ask her how it works. "FLEXING BURNS CALORIES!" that's how. It keeps flexing, here... and there... and doing body builder poses as more and more fireballs start getting thrown out.

    Iron Soul, however, stands at the back, taking a whip crack with that sword of hers. "So boring... and ugly..." she tsks a bit and dashes in, heels first as she grinds it into the Giant Poochoze... and starts... scolding the hell out of it with words that are very not nice. "Now little worm, show me what you really can do when I crush your throat so you can't speak~, I'll get over the fact you can't call me Madam Goddess in front of them~" she slams that heel into the throat (wherever that is) of the Poochooze, the fireballs slowly dissipating as it chokes.
Silica     Silica just... kinda stares. She's not really sure what she can do when... is it FLEXING FIREBALLS!? And did she just choke it with her heel? Why... what... how... uuuuugh. She brings a hand up to palm her face, and just kinda, drops to her knees with her face covered... what did she get herself into?
Lexicon     "Tch..!" Lexicon kicks back immediately when her axe doesn't strike the Poochooze in the way she was expecting-- like a slime creature. The metallic resonance and solid structure has her hands tingling from the vibration of hitting it so hard. The beast scatters fireballs, and Lexicon's reaction is to push her axe forward to use the blade as a shield. She's not inherently weak to fire, despite her ice affinity, but pain is pain, and what flames get past her defense singe dark marks into her pristine white outfit and create red damage indicators on her skin.

    "It's a fuckin' stereotype. And a bad one, at that." She glances aside, "Silica, it's heavily armored! You're the support mage, what've you got to reduce its defenses?!" A glance shot in the other way, "Constantine, what about you?!"

    Looks like Tutelia has her own plans, though, stepping on the gargantuan bodybuilder. With a sigh, Lexicon drops altitude with the fireballs diminishing, hauling her axe up to one side, "I'll knock it down, then we'll work on taking it out. C'mon!" Boots digging in, Lexicon surges forth, her axe held low. With Tutela on top of it, Lexicon goes for the hilariously beefy legs in a sweeping motion, "Take a load off, meathead!"
Cirra Constantine     "I need a minute!" Cirra responds to Silver Soul from atop the rollercoaster.

    The Malvader in the back starts to turn red with anger as it waves its arms. Cirra continuing to block all of it's carefully planned attempts to kill her in this shooting gallery.

    The cars hitch on another winch, pulling the train up and up, giving Cirra a chance to scale backwards down the cars towards the Malvader. The virus, in a panic pulls out a remote controll hover over the button as the Judge draw nearer. Cirra reaches for the virus as the cars reach the top of the, very, very steep drop.

    The virus pushes the button, blowing out part of the track ahead of them. It laughs as if it had finally won against the Judge, but Cirra just stares at it.

    "You know. You're locked inside that thing, right?"

    The Malvader suddenly turns pale as it's antenna droop and it's eyes seem to turn into saucers. Cirra climbs over the last car and slaps a law card down on the back of the train. "The. Force!"

    Magic PArticles rain down from a bove, simulating force of GRavity as it works on Galianda, increasing the weight of the coaster-train and shooting it down the steep slope at ludicrious speeds. So fast that the whimpering Malvader's face is pulled and stretched as it flaps in the wind.

    The coaster goes screaming around the corner of the track as the virus desperatly tries to pull the locking bar off, struggling to try and squirm out, and at one point tries to chew off it's lower body. Litterally anything to escape the accelerated doomtrain as it goes straight for the break in the tracks. The virus finally sighs and wraps a blindfold over it's eyes stalks and smoke a cigerette.

    The entire coaster goes through the broken tracks, soaring through the air like an especially large bullet... Right for the Super Cho Aniki Virus as the Malvader holds up a white flag with 'OW' written on it.

    "Will that suffice?" Cirra shouts from the top of the tracks.
Tutela     There's axe-ing from Silver Soul... there's whipswording and 'very bad things' said to the Super Cho Aniki Virus, there's a catgirl who's looking dumbfounded... and then... there's Cirra. That train makes a beeline to the last stop on its tracks, the Viruses head... thing. Forehead. Top over the eyes, yes. It wobbles a bit and soon... just starts falling over and making a large crash into everything behind it, nothing expected the train to derail the virus, now...

    Iron Soul makes her way over to it, pulling her whipsword to a more... solid state, landing down on the steel-like goobody, walking towards the head... "Welp, you were not that fun to play with, you're such a bore... all muscle... no brain, but that's okay that's how I like my little prisoners~ not smart enough to escape the Iron Obulette..." she pulls out the comm program and smiles, "Oh dear sister Cautio... I have a /gift/ for the Obulette, can you check in one..." she thinks a moment, "YOu know what, nevermind. I'm just going to finish this thing off, it doesn't deserve a place."

    She reaches... and then starts slapping the head some with the sword. "Now who's your Goddess, who will you serve now?!" she laughs slightly, it's unsettling...
Lexicon     After tripping up the fused virus, Silver Soul brings herself to a stop and swings around, just in time for a train of roller coaster cars to crash into it. She floats up and back, shielding her face with one hand until parts stop flying around, grunting when bits of metal ricochet off her frame.

    Once it's settled down, she lowers her hand, scowling at the fallen virus. Tutela's actions defuse her attitude briefly, more confused by the DCC's speech to the fallen virus. After a moment, she drops both hands to her sides, axe still clutched, "What are you even doing?" Her grip on her axe tightens, glowering at her fellow Drive Core Controller, "Either delete it or quarantine it. That's what you do, right?"

    This whole thing is making her uneasy. Particularly how sadistic this strange DCC seems to be.
Cirra Constantine     "We might very well be stuck in here until you do." Cirra adds to Silver Soul's question. "And I don't think you'd like that, wether you have something to slap aorund or not."
Tutela     "Fine, fine... Ruin my fun..." Iron Soul pouts as she stabs her sword into the Super Virus... a bit of pulsating lightning courses through the virus as it shrinks... to a normal human size, dropping the new DCC off. "Go on, go. You're going to be no trouble now that I removed your viral components." a pause, "I can't split you, though... so..."

    It's at this point, Tutela dismisses the DCC mode and smiles, the entire tower teleporting away and dumping Silver Soul, Cirra and Silica in front of a game store at the hub. "Aaaa... it looks.. like the tower's gone...~